Passionate romance. Life’s next chapter.
Some rules are made
to be broken.
For women who know that experience doesn’t diminish desire—and that the most interesting chapter might still be ahead.
A Vermont summer. An expiration date. One impossible rule.
Desire doesn’t have an expiration date.
The debut novel
The Last Rule of Summer
A summer in Vermont. A man she didn’t plan on. An agreement that sounded perfectly reasonable—until it wasn’t.
Jillian Bennett knows how to manage an event, a deadline, and a room full of demanding people. Her own desires are another matter.
With Graham Hale, the arrangement is simple: companionship, pleasure, and no promises beyond the summer. Most importantly, no falling in love.
But intimacy has a way of making sensible agreements inconvenient. And when September begins to feel less like a date on the calendar and more like a loss, Jillian must decide whether protecting herself is worth walking away.
A mature contemporary romance about unexpected passion, the courage to be wanted, and what happens when the heart refuses to honor the fine print.
One summer.
One rule.
No guarantees.
The setting
Manchester, Vermont
The romance
Mature adults. An unexpected connection. A summer deadline.
The mood
Sensual, emotionally intimate, and threaded with humor.
For adult readers
Contains mature themes and sexual content.
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The stories behind the name
Meet Marci Richardson
Marci Richardson writes passionate, emotionally rich romance about people with a past—and a future they haven’t quite imagined yet.
These are stories for readers who want chemistry with substance: desire, humor, vulnerability, and the complicated pleasure of letting someone get close.
The Last Rule of Summer is the beginning. There are more stories to tell.
MR
Not a return to who you were.
An invitation to discover
who you can still become.
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What if love remembered?
A woman begins remembering a love that belongs to another lifetime. Then she meets someone who feels impossibly familiar.
But recognizing a soul is not the same as knowing whether to choose the person standing in front of you.
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